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(...) No need to do that. My prototype sits completely behind the board. It doesn't extend along either side of the board. Speaking of which, I finished up the controls last night. I've just got a little bracing I'd like to do then it is on to (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) I'm going to go with John on this. But only because I don't want him to have to start over, and I doubt it will affect Brian. :) (...) Sounds good. I have a BrickOS program that I made up to keep time. If I can find it, I'll post it. Steve (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) LDraw is actually much easier to start using than I thought. The interface is a little cumbersome, but nice. The lego pieces practically snap into place (but not the technic pins & stuff, they're trickier). I have only scraped the surface of (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) Someday I'll have to learn LDraw (or more likely LDD at this point). Very nice work John. It looks like it's one brick and one plate high? (...) I wish it was symmetric, but that can't work unless we make all the cells 6 wide. One point - we (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) With this being said, I've re-done the T3 board in LDraw. You can see the latest version here (when it goes public) (URL) The basics: baseplate-- green, cubes-- white & black, surround-- black, crosshatch plates-- gray If anybody sees a (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) ... (...) The baseplate should be green. The crosshatch plates should be gray, because that's the most common color in the Mindstorms set (for plates), and it can be seen as different from black & white (the cube colors). The other parts don't (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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I guess you guys discussed the T3 board while at Chibots. I agree, the extra 2 studs around the perimeter would be a good thing. So after changing my prototype robot last night to work with the extra area, I will be making the changes to the LDraw (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: latest results
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(...) I never took the time to think about this in those terms...hmmm...I will have to think about the impact of this to my approach... (...) Or a break in the line...either way, go straight... And, as a side note, I rebuilt Sniffer on Sunday and (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, FTX)
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(...) These are things I just didn't have time to test. My newest line following robot "Twisted" was made to follow a line with six inch radius turns. I spent a great deal of time working on it, and have at least four or five scrap prototypes on my (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) encoded by the position of the sensors instead of software (which, incidently, would make it very tunable at run-time - hold the sensors onto 12L axles projecting forward, for instance, so you can slide them back and forth). Hmm. That should (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) well, I started with this: (URL) seriously: follow this thread: (URL) I stunk on the advanced line following event, BTW (perhaps I should have (...) nope.. I would blame the lighting in the room. but I'll probably make a better attempt (...) (...) (19 years ago, 16-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) OK, I can't find the reference - Chris, what was your "skip over" light array idea? I stunk on the advanced line following event, BTW (perhaps I should have built a robot specificly for the task, and written the code more than 24 hours in (...) (19 years ago, 15-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) Steve, did you use my "skip over" light array idea? you didnt... I can feel it. Chris. PS any interest in a 8417 (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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Well, the "guys from Indiana" did pretty good at the Chibots event last weekend. In addition to setting up a somewhat small (by our standards) ball contraption with 13 modules, we made a good showing with our competition robots. We (Brian, Bryan and (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) I rendered it in LPub, and it came out the same (yellow). I changed the color from "Light-Green" to "Green" and it looks right. And, you may want to look into "multipart" models. It would let you draw ONE cube, and place it in the model ten (...) (19 years ago, 10-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) It is my understanding that the idea is to allow a builder to use as much area beyond the 32x32 baseplate as they want on 2 sides (I don't think we ever determined which side(s), similar to the rules for rtlToronto's C$ competition. During (...) (19 years ago, 10-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) It looks good - actually, I like the yellow. (...) How much outside? For instance, does that mean when building your robot you can *only* assume you can use the grid and surrounding two-stud area, and nothing outside of that? Is there a a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) I suspect you just put in a baseplate, and didn't specify the color... (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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A little while ago Steve asked me to put together a T3 board in LDraw. After some work and some discussions with Steve & Kerby, here is what I've come up with. (URL) don't know why LPub rendered the green baseplate I built the board on in yellow, (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: tic-tac-toe - Clearing the board
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For now, I think I'm falling onto the side of "no bonus". Mostly, I want this to be a tic-tac-toe challenge. I'm assuming that if we get a dozen entries for example, then there will be a broad enough range of skill levels that the bonus won't really (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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